Well the Kitty is extremely excited to announce that the Ruby & The Revelators performance as part of the Festival Of Chichester is also going to be our EP launch party, so make sure SUNDAY 6th JULY is in your diaries as it’s going to be one helluva party hosted by The Chichester Inn!! I am thrilled to bits to be working in partnership with local indie record label Clapton Waller Records based in East Witterings, run by Robin Clapton, who will be instrumental in making this happen for me. As a friend said to me recently I’ve come a long way since singing Me & Bobby Mcgee in the back of his taxi!! Yes and the journey continues 🙂 and I for one cannot wait to see what the future holds and hope you’ll continue to support the Tigers endeavours 😀 xxxxx

For someone that just five years ago was only singing on the sofa with my friend Derek Scott (that liked a drunken jam!) I can’t believe that I’m now working towards recording a series of songs as an EP, that I sincerely hope people will take to their hearts, and will enjoy sharing with friends and family. As with many up and coming artists it’s all being done on a shoe string, and under the steam of incredible friends and gifted musicians, that are happy to give of their time and skills freely, along with oodles of enthusiasm and….the odd drop of wine! King Rollo – step forward; he is spending a helluva lot of time doing the recordings, mixing and even the mastering (as well as putting up with me) oh and co writing, arranging and and just generally being the goodest of eggs ever!

Being dogged and determined doesn’t cost a thing and that I have been told I have in spades! The talent? I’ll let you be the judge, just having the opportunity to put a product in a fans hand will be such a thrill for me…I hope and pray you like it…We may put out a demo of just two tracks together first, download only, and use that as a way of mounting a ‘kick starter campaign’ to raise some of the funds to do the EP properly…well, we’ll see!! See you at a gig soon! love and light, from your Ruby *purrr* x x x ps If you need to contact me for bookings, tea leaf readings and sage like words of wisdomic idiocy then you can do it here. Or you can use it to join my monthly NEWSLETTER so you get al the griff delivered straight to your inbox! Easy peasy! x

It was a fantastic night for mine and King Rollo’s FUSION BLUES SHOW on 30th June at The Chichester Inn with a high attendance and big smiles all round. I was pleased as punch to have the opportunity to share the joy of great classic and contemporary blues songs with you, as well as singing two of my original compositions – Payin My Dues and Shattered not Broken – both really well received which meant a lot 🙂 Along side me making it so much fun and bringing real quality to proceedings: King Rollo (the rhythm King!) Nik Evans making some beautiful sounds on lap steel, telecaster and mandolin, and last but not least Jeff Evans on the Cajon box that goes bomperty booperty bam! Here’s some pics of the community in blues! xxx p.s next date for this show is: WemsFest – Sunday 22nd September – Westbourne Club, River Street, Westbourne, Hants. PO10 8TG. Tickets £10 from here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225635.

As you can imagine this is the most incredible news to me that myself and King Rollo and Co. will be playing the main stage on Thursday 20th June. We are in some incredible company, with us preceding sets from Irelands GRAINND DUFFY and topping the bill blues rock Demi god LARRY MILLER! Tickets can be purchased here; it’s going to be an awesome evening of rockin blues and soulful roots!!

It’s great performing at a pub you love and even better when you get to chat to the audience. I was given a rosy glow (not just from the dying embers of the open fire behind us) but from the glowing praise I was pleasantly surprised to receive!

One lady asked me ‘do you know how good you are?’ I was stumped! And felt humbled. It’s a difficult question as I’m only as good as my last song and how those that listen to it judge it to be…that glow turned into a glimmer though thanks to this very lovely stranger. This leads me to music PR – a thorny issue that gets me in a lather as to how much is enough and who and where! I placed a listing in The Chicheser Observer and added a cute ear catching description; and hey presto it worked! Two new fans who are going to keep in touch via this blog. Oh and the inked local rag!

Two other audience members simply googled my name scrawled on the pub chalk board – ta dah! Blog doing its job beautifully. So the lesson; do it all across all platforms, ink, chalk and pixels, but most of all do it well. Nice to know the extra effort is actually worth it. See you next time, for more heart bartering 🙂

Tuesday 24th May – RUBY & THE REVELATORS full band – TUESDAY NIGHT MUSIC CLUB – 8.30pm onstage. Tickets: Tickets are £5 and can be booked in advance by emailing CoulsdonComrades@aol.com or messaging The Tuesday Night Music Club on Facebook. Or just buy on the door! Address: The Comrades Club, 194 Brighton Road, Coulsdon, Greater London, CR5 2NF

Saturday 18th June – RUBY & THE REVELATORS @ BLUES ON THE FARM, BIRDHAM, nr Chichester. www.bluesonthefarm.co.uk. We are opening the festival that day which I believe is the 12pm slot. GET your tickets now for this 25th anniversary blues Jamboree! It will be amazing!! So many amazing bands!

Sunday 19th June – RUBY & THE REVELATORS full band @ The Blues Weekend at the Toorak Hotel, Torquay, Devon – on stage at approx 8pm – preceding the headline act CHRIS FARLOWE & THE NORMAN BEAKER BAND. Weekend runs from: Friday 17th – Monday 20th June 2016, from £212 per person 3 nights half board including a scrumptious Full English breakfast and a four-course dinner. BOOK HERE! http://www.boogaloopromotions.com/blues/weekends/

SATURDAY 16TH JULY – POLLEN MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL @ THE OLD HOUSE AT HOME PUB, CAKEHAM ROAD, WEST WITTERINGS, WEST SUSSEX. 12 – 11PM. We are on stage at 5-5.45pm. 11 BANDS FOR £10!!don’t miss this brilliant event. Craft gin & prosecco bar…willow making…face painting…pop up poetry & theatre and much more! For early bee adv. tickets click HERE

Sat. 21st March – RUBY TIGER & Friends headlining the acoustic stage at the ESSEX DELTA BLUES DAY MARATHON, The Bassment, Chelmsford. More info and tickets HERE or from the website: HERE. An incredible day of live music alternating between a band stage and an acoustic stage, and all for £10 in ADV. Don’t miss out! Just 200 tickets available.

Sun. 5th July – RUBY & THE REVELATORS full band – PHOENIX FESTIVAL – Richmond, London. More details to be released…

Tues. 21st July – FIRST LONDON GIG!! – RUBY & THE REVELATORS – Supporting Storm Warning and Li’l Jimmie Reed – a living legend! at THE 100 CLUB, Oxford Street, London. Tickets are available for £14 directly from me by emailing: rubytigersings@gmail.com. I’ll put them on the door for you and then you pay me on the night, or £16 on the door. We’re on stage at 7.30pm sharp!!

Comments

Fascinating blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download it from somewhere?
A theme like yours with a few simple tweeks would really make my blog shine.
Please let me know where you got your theme. Many thanks

Hi Wesley, thanks! Glad to know it’s finding some receptive minds! I bought the customisable template for $75 – I got it here – http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/soundcheck/
I still need to tweek mine, but I’m getting there slowly but surely 🙂 All the best, Olivia (aka Ruby)

So sorry only just saw this!! Hope you managed to find out and were able to attend. Do friene me on Facebook – rubystevenssings or Olivia Stevens that’s always the best way to keep up to date with all my live dates 🙂 Hope to see you at a gig soon, come and say hi!

Hi Ruby – sorry had to leave at half time on Friday at Chi Inn for other commitment – my loss. Great singing, great frock, great shimmy, great band. Looking forward to seeing you again soon, perhaps at Ronnie Scotts. Ken

Thanks so much for your lovely comments, I’m so glad you enjoyed it. yes there was a lot of shimmying going on! Including the audience by the end of the night! See you at a gig soon, I’d love it if it was Ronnie Scott’s :-))